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[[Context menu]]s will usually include actions related to the objects included in the current selection - the selection provides the "context" for the menu.
 
[[Simultaneous editing]] is a technique in [[End-user development]] research to edit all items in a multiple selection. It allows the user to manipulate all the selected items at once through [[direct manipulation]]. The [[Lapis (text editor)|Lapis text editor]]<ref>[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rcm/papers/chi02/chi02.html LAPIS: Smart Editing with Text Structure]</ref><ref>[http://www.usenix.org/event/usenix99/full_papers/miller/miller_html/usenix99.html Lightweight Structured Text Processing]</ref> and the ''multi edit''<ref>[http://blogs.gnome.org/jessevdk/2009/11/15/new-gedit-plugin-multi-edit/ New gedit plugin: multi edit], and a [http://www.icecrew.nl/files/gedit/multiedit.ogv demo video].</ref> plugin for [[gedit]] are examples of this technique. The term ''simultaneous editing'' is also used to describe [[collaborative editing]] in [[collaborative real-time editor]]s.
 
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